Editing Scientism (section)

=== Strong and weak scientism ===
There are various ways of classifying kinds of scientism.<ref name= Metaphilosophy2020/><ref>{{Cite book |title=For and against scientism: science, methodology, and the future of philosophy |date=2022 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-5381-6334-4 |editor-last=Mizrahi |editor-first=Moti |series=Collective studies in knowledge and society |location=Lanham Boulder New York London}}</ref> Some authors distinguish between strong and weak scientism, as follows:

* {{em|Strong scientism}}: "of all the knowledge we have, scientific knowledge is the ''only'' 'real knowledge'"<ref name=":0">{{harvnb|Mizrahi|2022|p=106}}.</ref> (Moti Mizrahi), or, "the view that some proposition or theory is true and/or [[rational]] to believe if and only if it is a scientific proposition or theory"<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last1=DeWeese |first1=Garrett J. |title=Philosophy made slightly less difficult: a beginner's guide to life's big questions |last2=Moreland |first2=James Porter |date=2021 |publisher=IVP Academic |isbn=978-0-8308-3915-5 |edition=2nd |location=Downers Grove, IL |pages=143}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Moreland |first=James Porter |title=Philosophical foundations for a Christian worldview |date=2017 |publisher=IVP Academic, an imprint of InterVarsity Press |isbn=978-0-8308-8917-4 |edition=2nd |location=Downers Grove, Ill |pages=348}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last1=Moreland |first1=James Porter |title=Love your God with all your mind: the role of reason in the life of the soul |last2=Willard |first2=Dallas |date=1997 |publisher=NavPress |isbn=978-1-57683-016-1 |location=Colorado Springs, Colo |pages=146 |language=en}}</ref> ([[J.&nbsp;P. Moreland]]<!--Moreland was a coauthor for all of these books, but he was the only author in common between all of them, and they all give these definitions verbatim, so they should probably be credited to him.-->), or, "only science yields epistemically credible data"<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last1=Taliaferro |first1=Charles |title=The Routledge companion to theism |last2=Harrison |first2=Victoria S. |last3=Goetz |first3=Stewart |date=2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-88164-7 |series=Routledge philosophy companions |location=New York |pages=337}}</ref> ([[Michael W. Austin]])
* {{em|Weak scientism}}: "of all the knowledge we have, scientific knowledge is the ''best'' knowledge"<ref name=":0" /> (Moti Mizrahi), or, "science is the most valuable, most serious, and most authoritative sector of human learning"<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> (J.&nbsp;P. Moreland), or, "scientific knowledge claims are the most credible knowledge claims"<ref name=":4" /> (Michael W. Austin)